Tue, Mar-31-20, 08:59
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Plan: Keto (Atkins Induction)
Stats: 235/175/185
BF:
Progress: 120%
Location: Florida
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Originally Posted by bkloots
I've never really understood the significance of this data about water consumption and beef production--which is repeated every single time there's an article about avoiding red meat.
I get that meat-producing factory farms--whether for beef, pork, chicken, or fish--are bad for animals and bad for people. Can we fix that without eliminating the protein source that's still vital for health? A problem not solved yet.
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There is a lot of prairie in Florida, and a very ecological rancher with mega-thousands of acres. He doesn't water his beef. There are streams where they drink naturally.
The steer grow on nothing other than what mother nature provides. He checks their health, if sick is isolates the sick one immediately (no herd immunity for him), moves them from pasture to pasture to keep them from overgrazing, and has books of all the other wildlife that share his ranches, wild turkeys, cranes, opossums, bobcats, and so on.
If you eat 100% grass-fed, pasture raised beef, you are doing the planet a favor. Plowing that up for veggies would use mega-amounts water, pesticides, herbicides and fertilizer (the manufacture of which puts 100 times more methane into the atmosphere than all the cow burps and farts combined).
Bob
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